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May 28, 2009 on 8:36 pm | In Uncategorized | No Comments

… Mike sends:

Norman Thomas said this in a 1944 speech: The Prophesy is here to bite us!
65 years later

A PROPHETIC 1944 SPEECH

Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 – December 19, 1968), and some of us are old enough to remember him running for President, was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America .

Norman Thomas said this in a 1944 speech:

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of “liberalism,” they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” He went on to say: “I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform.”